London Hospital head fights vivisection laws
Dr. Herbert Snow, twenty nine years head of London’s cancer hospital, urges New York and Philadelphia lawmakers to ban experiments on living animals. A noted anti vivisectionist, he argues that cancer research from vivisection is futile and that vivisectors evade truth with excuses while science progresses through observation and simpler laws.
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Philadelphia
Herbert Snow
Snow
London
Caroline Earle White
New York
Dr. Snow
Harvey
Malpighi
Royal Commission
Cal
Vermont Inspectors Seal Measures to Prevent Short Weight
A Vermont inspection tour led by Commissioner Hugh A. Henry sealed weights and measures across the state to curb short weight claims for maple sugar and related goods. The action follows a law approved in the previous legislative session to ensure accuracy in commerce.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Hugh A. Henry
Chester
Henry
Dower for German Science Inaugurated In Berlin
Kaiser Wilhelm inaugurates a major funding drive for German science, planning rich institutes modeled on American lines. Foundation funds, boosted to 2 3 4 million dollars, come from philanthropists and wealthy industrialists including James Simson George Wertham Leopold Steinthal and Krupp von Bohlenhalbach. Prof Emil Fischer discusses liquid air oxygen and advances in rubber synthesis and nitrogen chemistry.
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Berlin
Kaiser Wilhelm
Society For the Promotion of Sciences
2& Senate
Society
Kaiser
James Simson
George Wertham
Leopold Steinthal
Deutsche Bank
Goldberger
United States
Leopold Koppel
Robert and
Franz von Mendelsgen
Herr Krupp von Bohlenhalbach
Essen
Whch
Emil Fischer
Germay
Refining Meerschaum Deposit in Hanover New Mexico
Preparations are underway to develop a large meerschaum deposit near Hanover New Mexico with plans to erect a mill to extract and refine the product. The local ore exists as grains not solid blocks, requiring a special process. The company has ground and shipped it east where pipes were made from solidified material. Experiments indicate refining will increase value.
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Hanover
N. M
Europe
Endowment Gift St. Pauls Brooklyn Hears Frere
Rev Walter Howard Frere of London moved a listener to donate 100000 for a perpetual mission endowment at St Pauls Episcopal Church Brooklyn. The donor wished to remain anonymous.
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Divine
New York
Walter Howard Frere
London
Father Frere
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Brooklyn
Waiters Plan First Class European Tour on Lusitania
Chicago waiters John Henry William Rehm and Henry von Hannison of the Bismarck hotel announce they will leave their posts for a month to sail on the Lusitania and tour England and the continent. They will stay at the Carlton in London and fund the trip entirely from tips earned in Chicago. They aim to travel first class and to tip appropriately, hoping to learn from global hosts without ostentation.
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Chicago
Europe
Morgan
Vanderbilt
Pittsburg
John Henry William Rehm
Henry von Hannison
Bismarck Hotel
Lusitania
England
Carlton
London
von Hannison
Rehm
van Hannison
Willimantic claim to Paris fortune from Marie Normandin Huet
In Willimantic Connecticut Napoleon Normandin and Mrs Ap polinaire Fontaine seek a share of Marie Normandin Huet's 60 million dollar estate left by the Paris widow who died after serving as an army officer Ashcroft Huet. They contend kinship through the Normandin Dut Beausoleil branch and point to her will directing division of the fortune among the branch.
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Willimantic
Conn
Marie Normandin Huet
Paris
Napoleon Normandin
Appolinaire Fontaine
Marie Normandin
Canada
Ashcroft Huet
Huet
Soudon
Normandin Dut Beausoleil
London Sees Surge in Waiters After Coronation
London reports a surge in demand for hotel and boardinghouse staff after the coronation as hundreds of foreign workers, especially Germans, are imported to fill waiter vacancies. Clubs struggle to hire, while waiters expect a golden harvest in tips.
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London
Packing for Safety: Newspaper Wrap Sparing Fragile China
A Chicago Tribune piece from an era extols packing protection for delicate china using layered newspaper instead of excelsior. It outlines pre packing preparation, wrapping techniques, careful edge protection, and space filling to create compact, immovable bundles that withstand transport and reduce clutter.
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San Francisco
Chicago
Atlantic City
Chicago Tribune
Dainty Buttered Fudge and Ham Fard Preparation Tips
Tips for rendering delicate sweets and dress accessories, plus a detailed method for preparing Ham Fard. Spread date butter on fudge, line muff with silk, wrap trimmings and frocks in black paper, craft an embroidered linen scarf, and croquette tips. The ham recipe combines bread crumbs butter olives onions parsley Worcestershire tomato sauce tabasco and truffles then boiled and pressed for serving.
To Clean White Plumes
A brief Home Department note advises making a thin paste from gasoline and flour and dipping plumes into it. After coating, lay them aside to dry, then shake to restore fluffiness. The method is claimed to have been tried repeatedly.
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Home Department National Magazine
Polish for Brass in a National Magazine snippet
The article describes a brass polishing method using one ounce alum and a pint of lye boiled together. It instructs applying the hot mixture with a rag or brush to brighten brass. The note appears in the Horae Department of National Magazine.
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Horae Department National Magazine
Easy to Make Candied Orange Peel for Gifts or Luncheons
Simple home method to candy orange peels for elegant gifts or luncheon touches. Peel thinly, boil strips in sugar syrup until translucent, roll in powdered sugar, and dry in single layers. use within a week. A dainty box of home candied peel adds a personal touch to gift boxes.
Electric oven unit folds to form warming plate
A Scottish firm offers an electric oven with the heating element on one side that can swing outward to serve as a warming plate for teapots and coffee pots when not in use. The design highlights electricity's flexible heating options for the kitchen, overcoming gas limitations.
Good Peach Canapes Recipe from Woman's Home Companion
Drain peaches and halve if whole. Fill each cavity with sugar butter lemon juice and nutmeg. Bake slowly until heated, basting. Serve on buttered sponge cake rounds or buttered toast.
Delicious Soup Making Guide Retold
Rinse one cup of rice and cook in two quarts salted water until kernels burst. Simmer a half hour with a can of tomatoes. Season with salt pepper sugar onion cloves bay leaf nutmeg. Rub cooked tomatoes into rice starch, add one cup whipped cream and serve.
To Clarify Dripping With Boiling Water Method
When pouring hot fat into a basin add an equal amount of boiling water. This makes any brim pieces and gristie in the fat sink to the bottom. Dripping treated this way will be found beautifully white and clean.
Proper Carpet Care and Sweeping Techniques
A guide on sweeping carpets to follow the grain and avoid brushing dust inward. Emphasizes brushing with the grain for effective dust removal and carpet longevity.
Onlg Orker by Wilburd Nesbit and the Recovered Umbrella
A troubled man laments a recovered umbrella that cannot be used or lent. He explains the recovered item causes constant anxiety as its repair lags, leaving him in a state of confusion and distress. The narrator witnesses the man's obsessive turmoil over the umbrella.
The Youth’s Desperate Moment Echoes in a Romance
Frank Dameel finds the youth strained near a breaking point as a fair young woman, who has told him she cannot be more than a sister, pleads with him to avoid a rash act. He retorts, torn between despair and concern for her feelings as she muses on the chance to “make a fool” of him.
Combining Wealth Sparks Legal Question in District Office
An excited man bursts into the district attorney's office asking if a law exists against harmful combinations of wealth and business. The official confirms such a law. He reveals a personal example: his wife's milliner will marry the coal man and her dressmaker is engaged to the iceman.
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District Attorney's
Ruse That Failed in Lovelorn Exchange
A quarrel between John Henry Peck and his wife centers on trust and deception as a half hour of remarks about his alleged shortcomings leads to a sharp retort. She accuses him of seeing through his games while asserting firm stance in the domestic dispute.
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John Henry Peck
Old-Fashioned Spring Boasted in Timneyville
A tourist remarks Timneyville remains quaint and untouched by modern innovations. A Hatener asks if so, noting locals boast of an old-fashioned spring festival.
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Timneyville
Hatener
Dreamy author reflects in every line written
A writer proclaims a personal connection to her work saying she sees herself in each line. A curious woman responds with a wry question about writing on a mirror provoking a playful exchange.
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